8 Reasons Why Inhumans Could Never Replace The X-Men
4. They're Supposed To Be Too Weird To Understand
The point of Inhumans from when they were created is we're not meant to fully understand and relate to them. They are meant to be the eternal Other, that strange different culture that we'll never fully understand.
The point of them is to see heroes finding ways to work with them and discover enough similarities to get on, but they'd still never truly be a part of the Inhuman world.
As such, it makes it a lot harder for readers to get hooked into an ongoing series.
We want to see that weird and awesome culture - sure - but we'll never get as fully enveloped into it as we would with X-Men and the mutant allegory.
Because most readers do not come from a societal structure built on genetic difference, with a royal family that is still the ruling class, and a culture of going through a bizarre semi-religious process that changes their position in that culture just as much as it changes them.
The reader can't relate to that! It's cool! It's awesome! But the last time I huffed a bunch of gas, I passed out and woke up with one less organ, I didn't suddenly become a higher part of society.
The point is, though, we're not meant to understand the Inhumans. They're meant to be something bizarre and special and that we love, but we'll never really get.
Mutants, on the other hand, are pretty much all of us.